Out of the Vaipe, the deadwater
Subtitle: a writer's early life
By: Albert Wendt
Series: BWB texts
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books Limited
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Wellington, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780908321223; 9780908321261; 9780908321278; 9780908321285
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Childhood and youth; New Zealand Authors; Biography
Description: "Albert Wendt recalls his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, just metres from the local cinema, and his life-changing schooling as a scholarship student at an initially foreign New Plymouth Boys' High School. Wendt also explores his fascination with traditional pre-Christian Samoan religion, banned by the missionaries, and while he laments its decline and partial disappearance, he also celebrates its richness and depth."